Teacher Loses Job Over Decade-old "Bad Decision"

A St. Louis high school science teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a student approached her about her porn work from the 1990's.

I don't see why this is an issue. So she made a few porn movies... what's the big deal here? It wasn't like she tried to seduce a student or anything. In fact, she recalled the choice of spending some time working in the porn industry as a bad decision when she was fired from a Kentucky school district in 2006:

"I'm a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who's made a lot of bad decisions in life," Dye said in May of 2006. "Anybody who's been in my classroom could tell you how much I love teaching and how much I love these students, and that should be what matters more than anything in my past."

And she's right. What should matter in this case is how good of a teacher she is, not what she has done in the past. So what if she needed some money before she became a teacher and thought she could make a quick buck or two as a porn actress? Working in porn does not inherently make someone a bad person or bad role model. Heck, if the school systems would let her she could probably use her experience as a tool to teach kids why they shouldn't go into the industry (or at least think it through thoroughly, first).

I'll bet you that if you look around at the prominent citizens in your community, you'll find that many of them have a less-than-stellar history possibly including a criminal record with a felony or two (especially here in Oklahoma), and that's not even including what didn't get documented. Does that make them any less of a person? Is it wrong for them to be in leadership or role model positions?

So she did some porn to pay some bills. Why should she not be allowed to teach if she is a good teacher?